All Features articles – Page 17
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Giles buy puts Gallagher ahead of Towergate in the UK
Gallagher poised for staff swoops after takeover of Giles takes brokerage to £436.3m
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A new era of claims and underwriting collaboration
Tough conditions require better collaboration between insurers’ underwriting and claims teams, but businesses that are spread out across the UK fear they will struggle to compete with more compact
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IT Pack Glasgow: Scottish brokers size up the future
At the latest Insurance Times/Aviva IT Pack event in Glasgow, brokers heard that the market is struggling with over-capacity and how technology will be critical for clients and brokers alike
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UK insurer financial analysis 2013
Subscribers can login and click on the attachment to read Insurance Times’s analysis of UK commercial lines insurers in Insurance Monitor - UK Insurer Financial Performance: Who is delivering In commercial lines? The 60-page report breaks down the performance of the UK’s top commercial insurers.
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Fraud Charter: Prevention measures
The latest gathering of Insurance Times’s anti-fraud group got up close and personal with a convicted conman, as well as discussing ghost brokers, lessons to be learned from banks, and closer collaboration with the police
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Insurer 50: Managing the market
At Insurance Times’s latest top-level forum, chief executives compared notes on the government’s Flood Re solution, playing a soft market, return on equity challenges and getting their message across to the business
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IT Pack Manchester: Making the most of Big Data
In the second part of this year’s search by Insurance Times and Aviva for IT Pack member of the year, account handlers from Swinton and Bluefin shine out on a big day for Big Data
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IT Pack London: Be our 2013 winner
Insurance Times and Aviva have fired the starting gun in their search for this year’s IT Pack member of the year – and a Marsh executive has made a strong start in the first of six regional events
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Where is the next cyber attack coming from?
Cyber crime and data privacy are some of top risks facing the insurance industry
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Big Data: Too much information?
Many businesses have dismissed Big Data as a fad or far too complicated, but those who harness its potential have much to gain
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Time has come to learn some lessons
Insurers should be taking a more vigilant approach to claims and asking brokers for help with rates rises
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Fraud Charter: Data-sharing initiatives
In the latest round of anti-fraud discussions, delegates heard updates on various data-sharing programmes and the Insurance Fraud Register and concerns about fraudster attentions turning to liability claims - industrial deafness in particular
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Insurer 50 tackles changing market
From Big Data to motor and internal communications, the big issues were put forward for debate at the second Insurance Times Insurer 50 event of 2013, which was attended by some of the industry’s key players
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Broker 50 kicks off in style
The first Insurance Times Broker 50 event of 2013 saw some of the industry’s top directors discuss key issues affecting them, from the new regulatory body to the increasing use of technology and data
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Martin McLachlan, Polaris
Software house Polaris’s Martin McLachlan believes he can transform personal lines broking. All he needs is for insurers to get behind the idea with their wallets
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Insurers ready to cash in on growing cyber threat
Increase in regulation and risk of fines puts cyber-liability cover at top of agenda
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'The big boys will walk away if they feel there isn’t enough bread on the table'
Insurers don’t think that they are getting their money’s worth out of networks and don’t hesitate to pull out, as Aviva did
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Insurers still divided over benefits of ABSs
Industry worried that setting up law firms under Tesco Law could be damaging
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IT Spotlights: Insurance for mid-sized companies
Mid-sized companies are being hailed as the key to kick-starting Britain’s economic growth
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Julian James, Lockton International
Lockton International chief executive Julian James talks challenges, China and IPOs